Where does Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH ranks #11,667 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH hold?

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's Innovation Score?

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH focus on?

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 21 patents, ranking #1,078 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's recent grant velocity is -14% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's patents?

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's patents average 11.1 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH

Q: How is the Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Helmholtz-zentrum ranks #11,667 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 16 technology areas.

#11,667
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 11.1
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11667 · Foreign Corporation #11,667 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,667/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Glority…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Glority Software Limited (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Helmholtz-zentrum’s 36.6 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 11.4 pts (31%) Velocity 4.4 pts (12%) Breadth 14.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Access Closure · near

37
DataInfoCom USA · near

37
Helmholtz-Zentrum… · this assignee

37
Matsuura Machinery · near

37
Relx · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Helmholtz-zentrum's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Helmholtz-zentrum?

Each dot is one of Helmholtz-zentrum’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Helmholtz-zentrum’s own 11.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Helmholtz-zentrum vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Helmholtz-zentrum's grants concentrate

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 80.8% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Helmholtz-zentrum sits between Horiba ABX SAS and Idtp Holdings, Inc..

Helmholtz-zentrum's three-year grant acceleration

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Horiba ABX SAS

26
Husky

26
Hangzhou Glority…

26
Healgen Scientific

26
Hikma Pharmaceuti…

26
Hubei University

26
Humancentric Vent…

26
Idtp Holdings

26
Helmholtz-zentrum… ◀

26

What this shows Helmholtz-Zentrum holds 26 patents at rank #11,670, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Helmholtz-Zentrum

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,670 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Helmholtz-Zentrum's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Helmholtz-Zentrum, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Helmholtz-Zentrum ranks #1,078 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

DataInfoCom USA, Inc. 37 Matsuura Machinery Corporation 37 Access Closure, Inc. 37 Relx Inc. 37

Helmholtz-zentrum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.5%
2016	2	7.7%
2017	1	3.8%
2019	8	30.8%
2020	1	3.8%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	6	23.1%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 21

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 20

C07K - Peptides 8

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 8

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 8

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 8

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C12Y - Enzymes 2

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 2

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 2

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 2

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 80.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #11,667 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Infektionsforschung GmbH against Horiba ABX SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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